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    [1]    From: Stefan Dumont <dumont@bbaw.de>
           Subject: 10 years correspSearch - Connect Scholarly Editions of Correspondence (30)

    [2]    From: Norman Gray <norman.gray@glasgow.ac.uk>
           Subject: TV history, new digital media, and archives: an archive of Ceefax/Teletext (41)


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        Date: 2024-09-27 14:57:41+00:00
        From: Stefan Dumont <dumont@bbaw.de>
        Subject: 10 years correspSearch - Connect Scholarly Editions of Correspondence

Dear list members,

Since 2014, correspSearch (https://correspsearch.net/en/home.html) has
been collecting the metadata of edited letters and providing it for
cross-project research. Just in time for its anniversary, new features
are now available: visualisations, full-text search and a SPARQL
endpoint. Over 270,000 edited letters can be searched.

A good reason not only to introduce the new functions, but also to look
back and see what is yet to come. Read more:
https://www.bbaw.de/en/bbaw-digital/telota/research-and-
software/correspsearch/10-years-correspsearch

Best regards

Stefan Dumont

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Research coordinator
DFG project »correspSearch - Connecting Scholarly Editions of Letters «

Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
Jaegerstraße 22/23
10117 Berlin
Germany

Tel.: +49 30 / 20 370 -573
dumont@bbaw.de
http://www.bbaw.de/die-akademie/mitarbeiter/dumont
https://www.correspSearch.net/en/home.html

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        Date: 2024-09-26 15:51:46+00:00
        From: Norman Gray <norman.gray@glasgow.ac.uk>
        Subject: TV history, new digital media, and archives: an archive of Ceefax/Teletext

Dear Humanist,

I include here a pointer to a plea for possible destinations for an archive of
off-air recordings of British TV, with particular reference to retrieving
Ceefax/Teletext content that may be available nowhere else, and which may be on
the verge of disappearing for ever.

https://takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/my-vhs-nightmare

The recordings may be of interest in their own right, but the surprising thing
here is the link to Ceefax.

Ceefax was a news and information system which was launched 50 years ago, which
was transmitted in the interstices of the TV signal, as something of an
afterthought.  The system had text and _very_ basic graphics, and the technology
and its possibilities were explored in a sometimes rather anarchic way.

One aspect of 'anarchic' here is that nothing of Ceefax was backed up or
archived, so is apparently not properly recorded _anywhere_.  But someone
realised that, since the Ceefax content was included in the TV signal, it would
be recorded in fragments in off-air recordings, and there is something of an
effort to try to reconstruct as much of it as possible, opportunistically, by
grabbing the bits from sources such as this cache of recordings.

The material is currently taking up an inconvenient volume of physical space,
and its current (transitional) holder is actively looking for some organisation
to pass this on to.

Any suggestions to the current custodian would surely be very welcome.

Best wishes,

Norman


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Norman Gray  |  https://www.astro.gla.ac.uk/users/norman/
Lecturer  –  School of Physics and Astronomy
Principal Engineer, Educational Technology  –  College of Science and
Engineering
University of Glasgow, UK


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